Larry,

>I have also heard from several of the network "gurus" that if no clear cut winner is decided then the President is slected by the Senate and the Vice President is selected by the House of Reps.
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>But that may be only if the vote is a tie.

You've got it backwards: Prez decided by House and VP by the Senate, if no one gets majority of the states' electoral votes, either by a tie or in cases where three candidates split the votes enough.

However, if the final selection is somehow tied up in court or otherwise undecided when Bill Clinton's term ends on Jan 20, the line of succession will be followed (skipping over Al Gore, since he would no longer be VP), and Dennis Hastert (Speaker of the House) would become acting president until the final decision was reached.

Interesting scenario if it went to the newly-elected Senate to choose the VP sometime in early January: A 50-50 party-line tie vote for Vice-President, with VP Al Gore then casting the tie-breaking vote to elect someone as Vice President, while the House would likely choose his opponent as President. Gore, of course, could not cast that vote to elect himself VP again, since he can't serve more than two terms. What a bitter irony that would be.